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I will thank you to direct the ordinance officer to send me without delay to this place, a copy of the contract made with Boker, for guns, with his directions for working it; and also, to find me a copy of Mr. Holt’s report thereon, which I see commented upon to my discredit in the newspapers. Knowing that I did no wrong, I am not willing to leave the country without trying to convince my loyal fellow citizens, of the integrity as well as wisdom of my conduct, in all related to furnishing our soldiers with arms often my predeccesors had inferred them to be

I will thank you to direct the ordinance officer to send me without delay to this place, a copy of the contract made with Boker, for guns, with his directions for working it; and also, to find me a copy of Mr. Holt’s report thereon, which I see commented upon to my discredit in the newspapers. Knowing that I did no wrong, I am not willing to leave the country without trying to convince my loyal fellow citizens, of the integrity as well as wisdom of my conduct, in all related to furnishing our soldiers with arms often my predeccesors had inferred them to be